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That's a nice result and a really good scar revision

It's quite common for MPB to strike in the latter part of peoples lives Michael Caine for example always had great hair but now he's almost completely bald. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones probably had zero hair loss in the first 50 years of his life, but he's really been losing it since then.

Yes, they both had treatment at AHS Jacques Kallis didn't have a transplant - he's wearing a wig (hairweave) I'm pretty sure the same goes for Warne

Wow - I'm impressed - that's an incredible amount of work in such a short space of time. You're making great progress - that's quite a transformation already Keep the updates coming

If you don't think that's a big improvement on where he started from then......God love you. At the end of the day the patient is cleary delighted with the result and that's all that matters.

Correct..........and Arsene Wenger NEVER made that claim anyway. He made a general comment about players taking longer to recover from injury if using medications for non-footballing reasons This is what he actually said:- Arsene Wenger has warned that players are damaging their careers by secretly taking hair loss remedies, diet pills and other medicines for non-sporting conditions. The Arsenal manager said that, in attempting to address medical anxieties, some players were putting their health and fitness as professional athletes at risk. In March 2011, Wenger’s former player Kolo Toure, then at Manchester City, was given a six-month ban after he tested positive for bendroflumethiazide, a weight-loss drug, contained within ‘water tablets’ recommended to him by his wife. Toure began taking the pills as he battled with what the Football Association described as “a misplaced perception that he is fat”, and an increasing number of footballers are thought to be taking hair loss medicines. Arsenal have been crippled by long-term injuries this season to influential players such as Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Ozil and Laurent Koscielny. Although Wenger said he could not know whether there is a direct link between sporting injuries and non-sporting medicines, he believes the recovery of players could take longer if they are taking medication for other problems which the club might not know about. When asked if he felt certain injuries could be prevented, Wenger said: “Some of them are down to the medication that the players take that you don’t even know about it. Then you realise afterwards that they took this medication but that’s not prudent “For the liver, the liver doesn’t work as well, the toxics don’t go as quickly out of the body as they should and they get tired. “If you lose your hair and if you’ve taken something to make your hair grow it might not be good especially for the rest of your body. "Medication always pushes a part of your body and is sometimes detrimental to other parts of your body. “At the moment we have not come to any conclusion, every case can be very different and you need to analyse very deeply why things happen. "I’m surrounded by people who want to enhance their performances because they have another problem in their life and it’s not always necessarily a good thing to do.” Arsenal stressed after Wenger’s comments that they knew of no instances of their players taking long-term medication. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10745838/Arsene-Wenger-voices-concern-over-Arsenal-players-taking-medication-for-non-footballing-reasons.html

Nope.........Steve Claridge had his surgery at a different clinic - ARHT Global in the UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6uP_PeQ5Bs

Nice job, but it looks like grafts were extracted beyond the safe zone?

I'm using them in roughly a 3:1 ratio (taking a couple of tabs of Avodart per week). Not noticed any hair loss since adopting this regime a few months back, but need to monitor it over a longer period and grow my hair longer to say for sure. By the way, I've not heard about Dr Frechet for years.......is he still active and performing HT's?

Well I think it's a great result Abbie despite what some of the whinging negative posters on here might think. The patient is clearly delighted which is all that matters at the end of the day

There was an Australian study on the subject which concluded that using the two drugs in combination is indeed beneficial. I have followed the same regime since reading that article and would support their findings. Combination therapy with finasteride and low-dose dutasteride in the treatment of androgenetic a.pdf

Dr Amiya Prasad offers PRP therapy in his Manhattan / Garden City clinics.

Which part of "we'll have to agree to disagree on that" do you fail to comprehend? It's pointless repeating your mantra. It's obvious we have widely divergent views on the subject and I strongly disagree with yours. I'm not interested in going round in circles or getting involved in "tit for tat" exchanges and I can't be ar$ed spending the time to refute your points one by one. Not going there.....particularly as my remarks were just a supplementary point to the OP's original question. So that's it : agree to disagree. 1. I've already said I can't post the name or a link due to forum policy (blocked by software). Which part of that do you fail to comprehend? 2. No, the surgeon in question makes those claims and has his own data - I'm merely repeating his observations 3. I'm surprised you don't know since you claim to be "up to date on most treatments" 4. I could send you a PM with a link, but seeing as you posted such a rude reply I will just say : GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND. USE IT Please keep your pompous condescending tone and comments to yourself By the way.... that's my last comments on this thread. Feel free to have the last word

The only reason Ironman was mentioned is that he is an example of someone who had particularly well documented results. I couldn't care less about his internet persona etc - I'm only interested in the evidence he put forward. 　 I've got no interest in getting into a pro-anti Gho debate (seems to be quite an emotional issue for some of you guys). He is merely mentioned as one party that can offer hair multiplication but not the only one. And let's get real..Gho has a massive waiting list, many of whom are repeat customers ...that's hardly likely to be the case if he has a crappy technique that doesn't work. We've obviously been looking at different pics (and videos) then...because the ones I've seen show good results in both the donor & recipient. Lol.......perpetual motion is here mate...Dr Nigam has already demonstrated that his donor doubling technique works and you'll get plenty more evidence over the coming months. 　 Lol....nice rant but utterly biased nonsense (IMO) and not really worth a reply. Let's just say we'll have to agree to disagree on that There is a surgeon who claims results in that vicinity and I responded in post#8...do keep up. 　 　On the contrary, some remarks can't go unchallenged so kindly don't be so patronising. I'm actually the one poster who fully addressed the OP's comments. as I can speak from experience. The photos show that the OP has got a much bigger area to cover than I originally thought (you have a nice disguise going on there HairToday). He also wishes to have maximal results and not just thin coverage. FUE alone will get coverage but not at the density he desires without multiplication or by other means.

Well, there will always be naysayers :rolleyes: With all due respect, you have haven't looked very hard and It's irrelevant what you "think". The proof is in the pudding.........and there's no finer proof than board members who have had the procedure themselves and documented their results. Take a look on some other well known forums where board members like gc83uk and IronMan have photographed their post operative donor areas in macro detail and painstakingly mapped and counted the follicular regeneration.....and guess what? ...the results are entirely consistent....more than 80% regrowth. This is solid factual evidence that goes way beyond "opinion" and "hype". Dr Gho is the real deal.

I could do but apparently the forum policy doesn't allow it :rolleyes:

Hi Hairtoday, First of all, I will speak up in favour of the Frechet scalp extender. I was in dire straights after being butchered by UK surgeons many years ago and had a Frechet extender fitted in 1994 (as suggested by Dr Damkerng Pathomvanich who later became one of the recommended HT surgeons on here). The Frechet extender was a great success and was an absolute LIFE SAVER for me. Frechet performed a slight flap operation a few months later after removing the extender and later I had a couple of FUT sessions with Dr Pat which enabled me to get complete coverage - something that was previously unthinkable considering my starting point. The Frechet extender was fantastic technology for the time and it may still have a place these days - but only for people who are in a dire situation. However, in your case, you are not in a dire situation and there is other less intrusive technology available these days that will serve you better. You don't therefore need the Frechet extender and you should forget about scalp reductions as they don't work - something I found out to my cost. You only appear to have a minor problem (I can't see any obvious hair loss in your photos). Personally, if I was in your situation, I would go for FUE to fill the thinning areas but I would ONLY consider a surgeon who can offer some form of donor regeneration like Dr Gho or other recommended surgeons who are getting donor regeneration with the use of A-Cell (I would also be quite happy to use Dr Nigam but that's another issue). This will achieve your objective of obtaining maximal results without further depleting your donor area. Dr Gho's method will give you around 80% donor regeneration but would require a trip to the Netherlands and there are US based surgeons getting 50%+ donor regeneration using A-Cell. You also have the option of using beard hair to re-charge the donor area which would give a great result and allow more scalp hair to be made available for transplant. Best of luck whatever you decide.

Great result for such a difficult case - well done

Nice summary - Thanks

Yes, I've had a couple of sessions with Dr Pathomvanich in Thailand and paid in cash on the day.